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- Based on a true story, the film focuses on the attempt of a group of residents of Lescun, a small Southwestern French town in the Pyrenees, who hide a number of Jewish refugees while devising a nebulous plan to somehow lead them to a safe haven over the border into neutral Spain.
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Feb 17, 2020 · Author Michael Morpurgo believes his story about the war-time rescue of Jewish children in occupied France is “more relevant today” than it was 30 years ago when it was first published.
Waiting for Anya is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, first published in Great Britain in 1990, by William Heinemann. It is set in Lescun, in a mountainous region of southern France on the border with Spain. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. It was adapted as a film of the same title released in 2020.
- Michael Morpurgo
- 1990
A Jewish father named Benjamin walks his daughter, Anya, to the safety of a train fleeing France. One day, a young shepherd named Jo discovers several Jewish children hidden on a farm run by a widow, Horcada, and her son-in-law, the aforementioned Benjamin.
Jan 1, 1997 · It is based on a real story and is set in the mountains of the French/Spanish border during WWII. The main character is a young lad whose father went off to war and was in a German prisoner of war camp.
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Nothing about this story is black and white, but for Tomas Lemarquis’ German Lieutenant. While everyone has shades of grey in a very confusing time with each forced to submit to some sort of self-examination, Lemarquis is the face of the Axis of Evil and the Nazi regime.
Feb 7, 2020 · The film is based on a popular YA book by Michael Morpurgo, author of The War Horse, and it is inspired by French villagers who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them over the mountains into Spain.
Feb 7, 2020 · Based on a true story, it depicts the heroism of teen Jo (Noah Schnapp) -- and eventually his entire village -- in transporting Jewish children to safety under the Nazis' noses. The peril/sense of danger is strong, and violence is brief but shocking.
